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Latest News
A collection of Samuel Wood & Co's most recent news and events
Mar
CHARITY
With Comic Relief in all the media at the moment, it has got me thinking that how we as a Company could raise some money for local charities. We have had a poll around all our staff and have decided that we would like to try and raise some funds for Air...
Mar
SPRING FEVER
With spring approaching, Samuel Wood & Company, which has an active marketing office in London, takes a look at how the property market is shaping up as we approach what is traditionally the busiest time of the property year The nation still looks to...
Jan
PARTNERSHIP
It is always nice to announce good news but to be able to double the good news is even better! Firstly the existing partners of Samuel Wood & Company are most pleased to announce that Russell Griffin and Andrew Cadwallader have joined the Partnership with...
Jan
Tara
Back in September 2012 you may recall that I put in my blog that we were looking for an enthusiastic person to join us to assist both the Ludlow and Craven Arms Offices. We interviewed some excellent candidates and offered the job to a local lass Tara Oliver....
Dec
TWO HEADS ...
On the basis that two heads are better than one, then one hundred heads are a great deal better still. Andrew Cadwallader, Russell Griffin and myself recently joined other highly regarded estate agents at the annual Mayfair Group conference at the prestigious...
Dec
VOTING
With Christmas fast approaching let’s take a look at how the property market is shaping up as we approach the holiday season. What is a property really worth? Nowadays a fun thing to do is to look up the value of the property in which you are interested...
Aug
New Career
Despite what the press are saying about a quiet housing market, both Andrew at Ludlow and myself are finding it difficult to cope and therefore are looking for some help.We are looking for an energetic, responsible person with some drive (and an...
Aug
FLOODING
Hopefully, we have seen the worst of the awful summer weather we have been experiencing and we can now look forward to a hot and dry spell. However, it won’t be long before we get another downpour and the risk of flooding returns.Home owners...
Jul
On your Marks
London 2012!!A global sporting event may be upon us, but for some this summer matters of even greater personal significance are happening closer to home.This August there will be a great deal of huffing and puffing going on in East London....
Jun
Buying versus Renting
Following on from my theme last week regarding newspaper articles another report I noted was the cost of buying a house as against renting one.This was for Barclays Bank and they reckon it costs nearly £200,000 more to rent for life than...
Jun
Greed is Good
When Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in the 1980s film, Wall Street, said, "Greed is good" it seemed a rather shocking statement. Well, greed is rather good in property. Greed – or to put it more gently, ambition - fires the market. It is...
Jun
Good and Bad News
An interesting and perhaps gloomy prediction I noted in the Sunday Telegraph over the weekend was a report from an expert at Coutts Bank (The Queen’s Bank) predicting that house prices would fall by 11%. The article did make comment about the report...
Jun
Beward of Greeks Bearing Debts!
The Euro zone is in crisis. We really are in a quandary over austerity versus growth. The French disagree with the Germans and the British disagree with everybody. What should we think or do?In London there is little doubt...
Apr
Betting Game
On Saturday we asked all the staff and their families to a day at the local point to point. The Partners (or more truthfully their wives) put on a lavish picnic and lots of drinks. It was a small gesture to thank them all for the support they have...
Apr
Planning for the future
The Government's new planning proposals have had a rough ride over the past few months and rightly so. Early drafts were not promising and they threatened disjointed, short sighted and self-serving policies. All is not yet crystal clear. ...